Yanomami

Beschreibung

Beschreibung

"If there is one book that redefines anthropology for the 21st century, this is it. It is a ground-breaking study that takes us to the ethical heart of the social sciences. Using the "Yanomami controversy as a lens for examining anthropology itself, Borofsky asks anthropologists -- from introductory students to advanced scholars -- how we should craft the values that define our work and ourselves. This is an essential book for our times."--Carolyn Nordstrom, University Notre Dame"What better way to learn anthropology than through one of its great controversies? Written in a lucid and concise manner, "Yanomami is really two books in one: First, it is a riveting, issues-oriented text that is ideal for sparking interest and provoking discussion among introductory students; second it is an invaluable analysis of critical disciplinary questions that every anthropologist and anthropologist-in-the-making need ponder."--Alex Hinton, Rutgers University

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note to Teachers A Personal Note to Undergraduates Suggested Yanomami/Yanomamo Films Helping the Yanomami Map PART I 1 The Controversy and the Broader Issues at Stake 2 Chagnon and Tierney in Their Own Words 3 How the Controversy Has Played Out in American Anthropology 4 Broader Issues at Stake in the Controversy 5 Keeping Yanomami Perspectives in Mind 6 You Decide 7 A Platform for Change photographic interlude PART II 8 Round One 9 Round Two 10 Round Three 11 Three Assessments Appendix: Summary of the Roundtable Participants' Positions References Index

Portrait

Robert Borofsky is Professor of Anthropology at Hawaii Pacific University and the author of Making History (1987) as well as the editor of Assessing Cultural Anthropology (1994) and Remembrance of Pacific Pasts (2000).

Pressestimmen

"If there is one book that redefines anthropology for the twenty-first century, this is it. It is a ground-breaking study that takes us to the ethical heart of the social sciences. This is an essential book for our times." - Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame; "What better way to learn anthropology than through one of its great controversies? Written in a lucid and concise manner, Yanomami is really two books in one: First, it is a riveting, issues-oriented text that is ideal for sparking interest and provoking discussion among introductory students; second it is an invaluable analysis of critical disciplinary questions that every anthropologist and anthropologist-in-the-making need ponder." - Alex Hinton, Rutgers University"

EAN: 9780520244047

ISBN: 0520244044

Untertitel: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It.
'California Series in Public Anthropology'.
28 b/w photographs, 1 map.
Sprache: Englisch.